Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that New Jersey statute barring certain calculations for pension benefits was preempted under ERISA
• finding that plan may offset retirement benefits in an amount equal to worker’s compensation payments received despite lack of explicit statutory authorization
• finding state law that barred one method of calculating benefits permitted by ERISA to be preempted
• explaining that a state statute was preempted because the statute would force employer either to structure all benefit payments in accordance with state statute or adopt different payment formulae for employers inside and outside the state
• preempting state law because it eliminated a method of calculating benefits otherwise permitted by ERISA
• discussing 29 U.S.C. § 1054(b)(1)(B), (C), and (G), and quoting the legislative history of ERISA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).